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Mahatma Gandhi's famous quote : A customer is the most important visitor on our premises; He is not dependent on us, we are dependent on him. He is not an interruption on our work, he is the purpose of it. He is not an outsider on our business, he is part of it. We are not doing him a favor by serving him, he is doing us a favor, by giving us an opportunity to do so. It is the day of consumers. Consumerism has increased several folds in the recent years. That is because of the larger (ever-increasing) population, which has got a lot of disposable income. Even the people in the low-income group have the financial capability to afford house-hold items (white goods) which were once thought to be fit to be in rich homes only. The recently coined adage says, 'supply creates demand'. You make things available (abundantly) in the market and the people grab them (irrespective of whether they have a real need or not!). A coconut shell (which is thrown away, after using the kerne

'To survive, you must die first - Title idea - courtesy - Ms. Sandhya Shiv I will extrapolate it a bit - To survive and flourish , you must die first. It is like a phoenix re-born from the remains of its ashes. So, technically the phoenix bird is immortal! It symbolizes the re-birth of oneself after he/she dies (symbolically). It may be due to utter humiliation, insult, torture (may be of the mind), total devastation, mostly by the people who are supposedly closer to you. You believe in them unquestionably, trust to the hilt. Invariably it will be your close aides and people on whom you had blind faith that stab you at the back.... There is no point in realizing it later (point of no return). Even if you scream, 'You too Brutus', nothing will happen. May be first-hand experience is the best teacher in life. Hence you might die (virtually) to rise above from the debris of your own ashes, gain the vaunted strength to rise like a Colossus. Having taken the bitter lesso